UAE becomes Africa's largest investor, overtaking China

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241225-uae-becomes-africas-largest-investor-overtaking-china/

by madihaa • 2 years ago

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This feels like a risk for America, Europe, India, and others. Africa is rich in resources, is strategically located in many ways, and will have a lot of the world’s population by the end of this century. Bringing them into the fold of liberal, freedom valuing societies is important. Letting them be controlled by or allied with the CCP or Islamic authoritarian regimes is a danger to everyone else.

krapp2• 2 years ago

It isn't up to the US, Europe or anyone else to decide on Africa's behalf who they should ally with or whose investments they should accept.

Let's not pretend the West has any interest in "Bringing them into the fold of liberal, freedom valuing societies." We're interested in colonizing, exploiting and undermining them in exactly the way we have for centuries, in tapping into another pool of resources and cheap labor.

And so are China and UAE to be fair, but at least they're investing in infrastructure. What is the US doing other than funding the dictators who work child slaves to death in the rare earth mines that feed our tech industry?

blackeyeblitzar2• 2 years ago

It isn't up to the US, Europe or anyone else to decide on Africa's behalf who they should ally with or whose investments they should accept.

No one is claiming it is up to them. I talked about the present situation being a risk and suggested they try to change it. You’re arguing against a strawman.

We're interested in colonizing, exploiting and undermining them in exactly the way we have for centuries, in tapping into another pool of resources and cheap labor.

This just seems like such an extreme and cynical claim, that I can only say that it is disconnected from reality. Sure colonization by western powers was terrible and a major crime against Africans. But that’s not the agenda of today’s people. And yes the West has an interest in spreading its foundational values like the idea of free societies. There have literally been wars over that.

What is the US doing other than funding the dictators who work child slaves to death in the rare earth mines that feed our tech industry?

This makes it pretty obvious you have a bias against the US and perhaps a bias in favor of China. First off China is the world’s biggest and most dangerous dictatorship. If you think the US is funding dictators - beyond having trade with China - share your hard evidence. But it is obvious you’re not seeking a factual conversation, since the rare earth industry is almost entirely owned and controlled by China.

UAE becomes Africa's largest investor, overtaking China

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